- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Underground movements, History
A worthy successor to Birdsong' Alain de BottonIn 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special oeprations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Sebastian Faulks
- First published
- 1673
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Audiobooks, Chivers Audio Books, Random House
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780091800574
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- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945
- Underground movements
- History
- Scots
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
- Scots -- France -- Fiction
- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- War Underground movements
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